<p>Hey, I was wondering how UC berkeley compares to UCLA in terms of admissions. I'm an out of state student coming from a 4 year college and I just got into UCLA. Anyone know how likely it owuld be to get into Berkeley as well?</p>
<p>They're both pretty selective but I would think that UCB is the more selective one. UCB keeps emailing me to update my work in progress whereas UCLA and all other UC's don't. UCB's average transfer GPA (for EE majors at least) is higher than UCLA also. But if you have high GPA and finish lower div prereqs, then you'll probably get in.</p>
<p>Berkeley is better than UCLA - sorry. Go Bears.</p>
<p>This is NOT a "vs" thread, lol. :)</p>
<p>My sister in law went to UCLA and handled all the Transfer Orientations at the time.. but she gave me this statistic, but I dont know how well it can be backed up.</p>
<p>She said basically UCLA has more applicants than Cal because it has the reputation, the athletic teams, the nice LA lifestyle, weather, etc. so they get more unqualified applicants than Berkeley. It becomes more competitively merely because the pool of applicants is larger than Berkeley's. I would presume people who would apply to Cal would apply to UCLA, but people who want just UCLA and that environment may not want Berkeley.</p>
<p>Cal is suppose to be harder to get into, but for some reasons 4-5 people from my HS got rejected from UCLA but got into Cal...go figure...yea UCLA does have the largest applicants in the country...pretty impressive IMO</p>
<p>that trips me out that people get rejected to LA but get accepted at Cal..</p>
<p>it IS impressive, Citan. but i know so many people at my community college who got into UCLA. i know them through the associated student body by the way. here are my colleagues who got in, just the ones i know about, i'm sure there are more:
1 as english lit
1 as english
1 as econ
1 as intl dev studies
1 philosophy
3 as poli sci</p>
<p>i'm kinda appalled that someone with a 3.1 got into UCLA under philosophy. this student had 4 Ws last semester (fall 2005) and only completed one class, and it was a philosophy class and it was a "B." is it me or is that odd? furthermore, she had 2 Ds on her transcripts, one was retaken and she received a B, and the other was a calc class and the final grade went from a D to W to W to finally a B. that's a little more understandable. for the spring of 2004, she had 3 Ws. i mean i can understand 1 W maybe each semester but 4 in one and 3 in the other. that's a whole lot of dropped classes.</p>
<p>the UCs do work in mysterious ways.</p>
<p>That is reassuring for me. I am currently worried whether my W last quarter will jeopardize my admission to UCLA, or any UC for that matter. I haven't reported my W yet. And because of that W, my planned work-in-progess course is pushed into summer quarter. Though I may be less fortunate since my major is impacted.</p>
<p>ee_stu: I thought u already were accepted to UCLA...btw didn't you get that faculty recommendation letter from UCLA a week back?</p>
<p>I checked online and was accepted, but they've never emailed or snail mailed me anything. I have to report my W to them though because I won't finish lower div prereq this spring like I planned. Does it matter a lot if I didn't adhere to my WIP schedule? I hope they will be flexible and not revoke my admission.</p>
<p>Edit: BTW, what was the nature of that faculty recommendation letter?</p>
<p>I didn't get anything from them in mail either....and if you didn't adhere to your WIP thing, you need to go here and report all the changes</p>
<p>and here's a scan of the faculty letter I posted a week back</p>
<p><a href="http://i3.tinypic.com/wbwjld.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://i3.tinypic.com/wbwjld.jpg</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the link. I never get anything in the email and never knew that update system existed. I originally tried to update via the UC application which has long beed closed.</p>
<p>Now I have to wait 15 more days for them to reply and see whether I will still be admitted or not. I think I'm still in though. I forgot that I listed up to 3 courses for summer on the WIP. Since I'm taking 22 units this quarter, I only have 5 more units for summer. So I am actually ahead of my WIP schedule!</p>